Silva Technology, Culture, Family

Influences on Home Life
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-29702-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 225 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

This book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems. It explores the connections between mundane practices in the reproduction of our bodies and our relations with those we live with, and the technological practices that inform daily life.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silva, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Relations Homes and Selves Time Cooking Cleaning Consuming and Caring Domestic Dilemmas Sexual Lives Conclusions Appendix 1 - Methodological Choices Appendix 2 – Profile of Participants Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

ELIZABETH B. SILVA is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK, a member of the Economic and Social Research Centre on Socio-Cultural Change and of the Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University. Her publications include (co-authored), (co-edited), (co-edited) and various journal articles on cultural capital, everyday life, gender, visual art and qualitative methods.